Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5, sentence 3
[a] 'Twas the morn of departure.
To what, where: Twas
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Twas | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Twas | det |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 5 Twas | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Twas | punct |
| 5 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 morn | det |
| 7 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Twas | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 departure | case |
| 9 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 morn | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Twas | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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